Word: salmon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost no time in studying Viking 2's new surroundings. With signals that took 21 minutes to traverse the 228,670,000 miles from earth to Mars, they swiveled the lander's cameras around for a better look at the Utopia site and the planet's salmon-pink sky, triggered its seismometers so that it could listen for Marsquakes (similar devices on Viking 1 have failed to work) and switched on its weather station instruments...
Well-muscled and of medium height, with reddish hair and flashing hazel eyes, Sabatini had the look of an outdoorsman. He married twice (in both cases Englishwomen) and had two chil dren. As the money rolled in, he bought an old mill on a famous salmon stream, the river Wye that coils its way between Wales and England; and there, more English now than the English, he played the country gentleman. "It leaves me cold," he told an interviewer in the early 1920s, "that men should write better novels than mine. But I hate a man who can kill more...
...diversion for his opera-singing wife Audrey Mildmay, it is now run by Son George. He surveys the audience, in the obligatory evening dress to reinforce the sense of occasion, picnicking on the 640-acre estate's broad lawns during the long early-evening intermission. Smoked salmon, páté, cold chicken and white wine or champagne are the staple fare. No wonder second acts always seem better. Says Jonathan Miller, one of the festival's visiting producers: "There is a sense of incandescence on those long summer evenings for both audience and cast. You feel like...
Then they take the coastal highway north again along the savage shore, turning off at Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest to see the aptly named Rogue River, where the salmon in spring and fall fairly beg to be caught. On they drive, through the state of Washington, into Canada, where they pick up the Alaska highway that takes them to America's true last frontier. Not far from Anchorage, they get out and walk on Portage Glacier. Later they fly to Mount McKinley National Park, where they learn that 100 hardy souls are threatening this season to assault...
...squads of security-trained servants for the power-elite." Politburo members and national secretaries of the Communist Party use black Zil limousines, hand-tooled and worth about $75,000 each. A network of unmarked stores caters to the Soviet aristocracy. Its stock: rare czarist delicacies like caviar, smoked salmon, export vodka and exotic wines, choice meats. Those stores also carry foreign goods the proletariat never sees: French cognac, American cigarettes, Japanese tape recorders-all at discounts. Including relatives, Smith estimates, these indulged shoppers amount to several million. Everything is maskirovannoye (masked) -the guilty secrets of privilege...